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Ashish Awasthi
IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad
ashish.awasthi@imsec.ac.in
Introduction
• Indian e-commerce sector has opened
business avenues beyond our imagination.
• With an annual growth rate of 28%, Indian e-
commerce space is in a rapidly expanding yet
mature and healthy phase.
• The e-commerce space has become really
complex with tremendous amount of orders
being processed daily.
Introduction
• Lenient return policies have fuelled unnecessary
ordering and increasing return rates. This has
implications both for the behaviour of
consumers as well as the online companies.
• Reverse logistics is happening at an ever
increasing rate. Companies have included free
returns as a part of their overall service offering.
• The aim of this study is to analyze the product
return behaviour of the online shoppers.
An important Question
Return Behaviour
Study Framework
Methodology
• 200 respondents were approached for the study. A
structured questionnaire was used for seeking
response.
• Out of 200 respondents approached, a total of 153
respondents returned complete questionnaires, 38
were weeded out due to lack of experience of
online shopping (and thus returns).
• 9 responses obtained were incomplete, thus were
not used in the study.
Methodology
• Structured Questionnaire:
• PART 1 – respondent’s profile
• PART 2 – Questions regarding online shopping
behaviour
• PART 3 – Questions regarding Online returning
behaviour and consumer’s characteristic
RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS
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